Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four-day orientation for 287 new Radcliffe Freshmen begins today in a new move designed to give the entire class, commuters and residents alike, a chance to get together before the beginning of the term. Acclimation starts with an evening welcome by Dean Mildred P. Sherman and an all-girl party tonight in each dormitory...
...This is the only time during the whole year that the Freshman class will live together as a unit," declared Dean Sherman yesterday. "The weekend should add considerably to College spirit...
...Magic Touch (by Charles Raddock & Charles Sherman; produced by John Morris Chanin) is the new season's first-and may well be its worst-play. It is a farce about a young couple struggling to get by on $28.50 a week, and a plunging publisher who sniffs a best-seller in their story. Hitting a hundred wrong notes, all fortissimo, The Magic Touch is just about as nitwitted as it is nerve-racking...
...Collar." Amy may be unremarkable and typical enough, but Husband Lyle is a Harvard A.B. (cum laude), son of a millionaire father who committed suicide in the '29 crash, and of a dipsomaniac mother with blue-dyed hair. By leaning heavily on these and other glamorous characters, Author Sherman spares himself the much more difficult task of making ordinary people interesting...
People called Milt a tom-walker† because he lost a leg marching through Georgia with Sherman, and thereafter wore a peg strapped to the stump. One day in 1866, when he was barely 17, Milt swung himself off the steam cars at Cincinnati and hobbled off to see his family again and his best girl. Lucinda took one look at his peg leg and wept. But they were married anyhow, and after the ceremony the bridegroom got drunk, punched his best man in the teeth, and sang bawdy songs for the guests. "Oh, the vulgar, degrading army," moaned...